First Aid!

Who has a first aid kit?

For your animal(s)?  For people?  Can you get to it quickly without having to ask anyone for help?  Can everyone who might need it (including animal sitters) find it easily and use it comfortably?

I am always on the lookout for first aid information.  I think the best way to handle any emergency calmly is to be prepared, and let's face it, where there are animals, there are injuries!

So, when Murray McMurray sent me a sales e-mail with "the best first aid kit ever", I had to look.  Wow, was I surprised at the cost and how little was actually in it!  I love the customer service at Murray McMurray, and the quality of their poultry, as well as their book "Chickens in 5 Minutes a Day", but that was just...

This got me thinking about you all, and your first aid kits.  My kit in the barn is in the same place every time.  It is a travel kit, I have the things like ointment that I use frequently in larger sizes in the barn as well, but this kit has absolutely everything I think I could need for traveling with horses and kids, or for at home. Gauze is gauze, anti-bacterial ointment is the same too, so I don't have separate kits for humans and critters.

I do have a small "bumble-foot" kit for the chickens in a pencil box that I can take to the picnic table with a bird tucked under one arm.

Now, with sheep, I need to learn about what specialty items I'll need for sheep.

So, talk about your first aid situation.  Does anyone want to put together a kit?  What would you want, what do you need?  Would you like to purchase together so you can get what you need, in a smaller amount, but for a better price?  Some things expire, have you checked your supplies?  Ointment that expired last month is not a big deal, but expired a year ago -- that needs replacing!

Cloverbucks Auction!

Let's do it!  At the July 2 business meeting!

I got a bunch of great prizes, then the world imploded.

Over the next month, you could drop off your records for me to review, or we could meet virtually for you to show me your records.  I will award you Cloverbucks, you can show me the Cloverbucks you have already (we'll both keep track) then we can have the auction at the July meeting.

Sound good?

Get your records complete to date (still waiting for the final Food & Nutrition, another CS/Game Changers, and more poultry and sheep meetings, but Livestock did complete).  Complete records means all the project journal parts are filled in, you've got at least the start of the summary (for projects still waiting), and you've selected some life-skills from your wheel. 

There won't be as many out of club opportunities for you to put in, but at least everyone is in the same boat!  If your You(th) Lead is ready to go, you'll get Cloverbucks for that too.  If you've got a exhibit of some type you were  planning on sharing with the world (the 4-H world at least), take a photo or video and you'll get Cloverbucks for that as well.  Your model farm is the good start of an exhibit.  You could make a video of you telling what is part of your model farm and why!  If the cat squashed it..., well, I'm sure you can find some way of sharing what you worked on!

Connect with me and let me know what method for sharing your records works best!  Do not wait until July 1.  I won't be able to review them then!